Fifty years ago the Seattle World’s Fair captured the imagination with a home filled with inventions that make mundane housekeeping tasks easy (and even dispensable). The resulting home displayed at The Seattle Center was named “The House of the Immediate Future”. Now <a href="http://www.millerhull.com/html/home.htm">The Miller Hull Partnership</a> and <a href="http://www.seattle-habitat.org/">Habitat for Humanity Seattle/South King County</a> have teamed up to bring a new residential project of the same name to the foot of the Space Needle, which welcomed the World’s Fair of 1962. This 1,400 square-foot home, built by the volunteer force of Habitat for Humanity, showcases the affordable, environmentally friendly building technology of today. It is one of seven super energy-efficient homes being feature by <a href="http://www.northwestenergystar.com/">Northwest ENERGY STAR Homes</a> this year.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

This rendering produced by Miller Hull paints a great picture of the flexibility of this design, which could easily adapt to almost any city in America.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

This diagram helps to explain the design and interaction of the Proto Core type Wet Core that is installed into the home.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

This image, from the original 1962 Seattle World's Fair, shows the original "House of the Immediate Future" which Miller Hull reinvented for this year.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

The two-story home has four bedrooms and two baths - even at 1,400 square-feet in size.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

The construction of the home features a prefabricated “wet core” built by <a href="http://methodhomes.net/">Method Homes</a>, which houses a mechanical room, kitchen, bathroom, and all plumbing and HVAC systems.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

Though the house is assembled using panelized segments, the off-site construction of the “wet core” in a manufacturing facility helps to reduce the construction time and cost.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

Other practical construction techniques utilized to ensure affordability and quality include maximizing insulation and minimizing air-infiltration.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

The panelized segment construction of the home extended from the stud wall framing all the way to the exterior cladding, making construction time and cost more efficient.

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Miller Hull and Habitat for Humanity Home of the Immediate Future

Fifty years ago the Seattle World’s Fair captured the imagination with a home filled with inventions that make mundane housekeeping tasks easy (and even dispensable). The resulting home displayed at The Seattle Center was named “The House of the Immediate Future”. Now The Miller Hull Partnership and Habitat for Humanity Seattle/South King County have teamed up to bring a new residential project of the same name to the foot of the Space Needle, which welcomed the World’s Fair of 1962. This 1,400 square-foot home, built by the volunteer force of Habitat for Humanity, showcases the affordable, environmentally friendly building technology of today. It is one of seven super energy-efficient homes being feature by Northwest ENERGY STAR Homes this year.